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Even then, the sacrifices were usually utilitarian. It was somebody they would execute anyways in most cases, so they'd execute him for the Gods and kill 2 birds with one stone. There's like... very few documented cases of sacrifices made with people who very clearly didn't deserve it, and always during periods of famine and/or drought. Actually, we don't even have proof that they did it *at all*. Just a couple Bog bodies that look somewhat ceremonial, which may be entirely coincidental.

We just have tacitus' word on what they punished with death, and his word on human sacrifice might be a complete load of shit. Hollywood says vikings sacrificed people all the time, there's no concrete evidence for that either. Not one reliable written account whatsoever. Some monks wrote about it, sure, but is that real? Or just propaganda from the time. How would they even know this?

Human sacrifices were either a taboo in society for indo european people, or extremely rare. There isn't a single one that actively practiced mass-sacrifice. Literally not one. Not even india. When the romans went to Carthage they were disgusted by it. When the romans went to judea they were disgusted by it. Which is why they utterly razed those places to the ground.

There's a reason that Christianity appealed to whites.